Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-11-02
COL NARDEN'S SUBSTITUTE.

Colonel Nardeu was generally looked
ppon In Townsend AS a pleasant man,
a good tlwusman, cOntented with
world that. save for one misfortune,
r,py agO forgotten, had used him well.
p.v then had sufficient ability them
.sIvss 10 measure the ability that had
made him power in the towa-that
would have made him a power through
ont the land had IL not been for that
which be had forgotten"
ONLY the death blow to his ambition.
When the Grand Army of the Potomac
bsd dfshauded, Colonel Marden, with i
Confederate bullet in his side, had TT
,umed his pra tlce of the law. Still i'll
tie tweut'es, he was sent to General
Court. aud before long 10 Congress.
He was spoken Of as one OF the rising
men OF New Hampshire.
Il was then that the bullet began To
assert itself, and the end OF It all was
that Alfred Marden had to give up all
active work. accept the position of
Register Of Probate, and resign himself
70 spending the rest of his days in his
native town, only occupying himself
with the light duties of his office
Downright Idleuess would have been
mtOlerah.e TO him.
4 guiet, uueuterprising town was
Townsend, but IJ was his native place
and the big, gray stone house hal
stood on the square since the days when
It WAS IN the midst of green fields, and
half the town was Squire Marden's'
tarm.
"A smart man, and 8 good one. :"
every body said Of the present Squire.
Everybody but one or two. "A good
man, aud smart one,'' said that one
or two
He had always been interested
the Academy and had done much for
Il. But the offer he had last fall over
shadowed everything else. 1t was made
20 the graduating class, and conduct
10 sChOU. and Out-aud recitations
throughout the year 10 be considered.
What bOyish heart did not throb as the
CUiOue. spoke 10 them that memorable
Monday.
Think Of it. The lucky fellow was
% he sent 90 Dartmouth, and thea
would receive a law education In Colo
mel Mardsu's own office. Not Only
yartultousy, out, for i've years after
graduation, no receipt OF a handsome
salary AS clerk. He meant, Colonel
Nardeu concluded, 10 give the winner
ot the prize precisely the same sdvant-
ages DE himself had had. Nobody
heard tie sIyh US be sat down, though.
indeed, It would have been difficult to
have heard anything as the boys took
10 this magnificent offer and clapped,
gheered, and pounded in the unmis-
taxable fashion boys have Of manifest
INK their approval.
No wonder every one OF the twenty
made up his mind that he would win
The "Judgeship" as it grew to be
called, or that tUr the next few weeks
There was such perfection Of recitstlons
aud conduct that Mr. Alden thought
TIE millennium had set in. Every one,
no matter how hopeless the case, from
oauuy Atgee, always at the foot, w
through the whole scale OF ability and
perseverance 70 the two who, after
those urst few weeks, began slowly %
distance The others.
Arthur Rand Was a minister's son,
and the struggle II would be TO MS
IAther 90 send him to college WAS q
large factor in his determination II
VIII tie was pleasant, gentle man.
ueled BOY, naturally painstaking and
mgtloiicaI, not quick, but with ar
.tuu'ultdo.e power Of sticking at it,
'udN udd always insured him victory.
San Allen WAS the eldest OF half Z
uolen who Rad grown up somehow II
lne olg farmhouse Just outside of tn,
'"'aSr' His father was a hard-work
'ls l"Imer with no thought beyond his
eANy labor, and considering he had
uone enough by his children that theN
were clad aud fed IN plain, homely
taSAlou- Too much "eddicatiOn" WA
uaI Tor soul and body, and he had tn,
p'e-udIces of his class against lawyers
sam had had hard work to get per
SI'sstoh 20 90 TO the Academy at all
ouN tor more mouey-sveu to give hIu
Is Hue-tO be expended on his eiuca
son, that his father had refused Z
consider, and his nay was indeed nay
buN When sam had come home las
Iep'emoer, brlmmiug over with tn
s'gat news, Mr.. Allen had relaxed, 70
ui' aarI grusplug nature the idea o
us son getting an education at an
o'ueI expense was iTresistably al
.IacI'Ve, and he had promised tn
seI trembling boy he would Civ
s1n the last year at the Academy an
US Time should he win, with the pre-
slso that II he failed he should settl
SO"n TO farm work without any NOR
fostering ut him. And sam on hi
side promised.
de had all the support of the Other
Enough, not only in the sympathy ths
. 80 great q help in our endeavors, bu
Vue and all strove to tighten his chors
I-"N ne might have more time to stud,
a. t solemn couclave, Jerry proposed
oaAe ON himself the milking aud woot
suopp,us' Billy to pump water az
u the ueus, while the girls agree
uoI % call upon HIM for a single errau
au.I 70 put their money together, hard
,I,a @,aed oy berry picking and dandelio
sSaS,nerlug, 10 buy student lamp liz
Col0nel Marden's 50 that Sam coul
9'euy oy a good light, and they woul
,I ny speak a single word all throug
evening, 50 the kitchen, the on
ou warmed, could be quiet; whiC
perhaps, the greatest sscriiS